October 10, 2017

Lakeview Regional Medical Center, a campus of Tulane Medical Center, announced that it is the Official Hydration Sponsor for all home games at St. Paul’s School, this year. As a sponsor for hydration, Lakeview Regional physicians remind parents that kids can become easily dehydrated whenever they play sports, regardless of season, temperature, or relative humidity.

October 10, 2017

LSU Health New Orleans' Precision Medicine team will participate in the National Institutes of Health's All of Us Research Program. All of Us, which seeks to gather information about the health  of one million, or more, participants living in the United States aims to build the largest health research database in United States history. The database will be accessible to researchers throughout the country to drive studies on a variety of health conditions, which may help lead to more individualized approaches to the prevention and treatment of diseases.     

October 10, 2017

Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, PhD, Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans, has discovered a new class of molecules in the brain that synchronize cell-to-cell communication and neuroinflammation/immune activity, in response to injury or diseases. Elovanoids (ELVs) are bioactive chemical messengers made from omega-3 very long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (VLC-PUFAs,n-3). They are released on demand, when cells are damaged or stressed.

October 10, 2017

The National Institutes of Health has awarded Tulane University a five-year, $6.28 million grant to test ways to best implement new guidelines to more aggressively manage high blood pressure in adults, especially among low-income patients at high risk for cardiovascular disease.   

October 10, 2017

Touro has completed the hospital’s first several cases using the UroNav fusion biopsy system, a cutting-edge option for diagnosing prostate cancer for many patients with elevated and/or rising PSA levels. The UroNav combines pre-biopsy MR images with ultrasound technology to better detect suspicious lesions, delineation of the prostate, and clear visualization of the biopsy needle.